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Judge Recommends Fining Delivery Nurse for Vulgar TikTok Video "Wish[ing] a Gruesome Birth Injury on the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, While She Was Pregnant"
Free Speech Judge Recommends Fining Delivery Nurse for Vulgar TikTok Video "Wish[ing] a Gruesome Birth Injury on the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, While She Was Pregnant" Eugene Volokh | 9.9.2026 8:33 AM From Dep't of Health v. I hope that you f***ing rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c**t [redaction in the judge's recommended order]…. Respondent identified herself in the Video as a labor and delivery nurse but made no mention of her employer Baptist Health and was unable to testify as to why she included her profession in the Video.
- ▪Free Speech Judge Recommends Fining Delivery Nurse for Vulgar TikTok Video "Wish[ing] a Gruesome Birth Injury on the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, While She Was Pregnant" Eugene Volokh | 9.9.2026 8:33 AM From Dep't of Healt
- ▪I hope that you f***ing rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c**t [redaction in the judge's recommended order]….
- ▪Respondent identified herself in the Video as a labor and delivery nurse but made no mention of her employer Baptist Health and was unable to testify as to why she included her profession in the Video.
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Free Speech Judge Recommends Fining Delivery Nurse for Vulgar TikTok Video "Wish[ing] a Gruesome Birth Injury on the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, While She Was Pregnant" Eugene Volokh | 9.9.2026 8:33 AM From Dep't of Health v. Lawler, decided Sept. 1 by Florida Administrative Law Judge Robert Cohen: On or about January 22, 2026, Respondent … posted a video on her TikTok account in which she wished a gruesome birth injury on the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, while she was pregnant and awaiting the birth of her child[:] As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear. I hope that you f***ing rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c**t [redaction in the judge's recommended order]….
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